Michael March wrote:
If anyone is interested I just completed a series of benchmarks of
stock Postgresql running on a normal HDD vs a SSD.
If you don't want to read the post, the summary is that SSDs are 5 to
7 times faster than a 7200RPM HDD drive under a pgbench load.
http://it-blog.5amso
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Scott Carey wrote:
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> On Aug 5, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
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>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Pierre C wrote:
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1) Should I switch to RAID 10 for performance? I see things like "RAID 5
is bad for a DB" and "RAID 5 is slow with <= 6 driv
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:49 AM, Michael March wrote:
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>> SSD's actually vary quite a bit with typical postgres benchmark workloads.
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> You mean various SSDs from different vendors? Or are you saying the same SSD
> model might vary in performance from drive to drive?
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>> Many of them also d
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> On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Michael March wrote:
> > If anyone is interested I just completed a series of benchmarks of stock
> > Postgresql running on a normal HDD vs a SSD.
> > If you don't want to read the post, the summary is that SSDs are 5 to 7
> > times faster than a 7200RPM HDD dri
